by KarenD | Jun 19, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
Talking it Through: Communication Skills for Mentors promotes successful mentor/youth interactions and relationship-building. Once mentors learn about the complexities of their role, they often wish they were better prepared. Watching and reflecting on the examples in...
by KarenD | Jun 12, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
This isn’t how you pictured your relationship with your mentee turning out. She was supposed to burst out the door of her home with excitement every time you picked her up, hang on your every word, and spend at least half of her time with you laughing and smiling....
by Miranda Aulie | Jun 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
The ideal mentor doesn’t and shouldn’t do it for themselves, this is clear, they do it for the kids. We know that kids who have a mentor experience many positive impacts, a few being they are 55% more likely to enroll in college, 78% more likely to volunteer...
by KarenD | May 30, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
Finding ways to schedule and keep track of your next visit can sometimes be tricky, especially if you both have busy schedules, or if either of you has unreliable access to a telephone in your home. Here are some tips for setting up reliable ways to schedule visits: ...
by KarenD | May 16, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
By Chris Farrell, Next Avenue Contributor Fifty-something Linda Meadows, a volunteer with the AmeriCorps Reading Partners program, is tutoring students at the library of Cherry Hill Elementary in south Baltimore, a low-income, mostly African-American neighborhood. “I...
by KarenD | May 8, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
Even students who perform extremely well on math exams can suffer from anxiety. And the better a student does at math, the more strongly anxiety will drag his or her performance down, new research shows. And the relationship between anxiety and achievement holds true...
by KarenD | May 2, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
We commissioned filmmaker Nic Askew (soulbiographies.com) to make a series of films about connected learning, a new approach to learning he called “courageous” and...
by KarenD | Apr 24, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
by Jean Rhodes Nearly 80 years after its publication, Dale Carnegie’s, How to Win Friends and Influence People, remains one of the best-selling books of all time (30 million copies!). This led me to wonder whether some of the interpersonal skills that Carnegie...
by KarenD | Apr 18, 2017 | Making Mentoring Work
The temptation is common, and your intentions are good. Your relationship with your mentee is new. You want to give him the opportunity to experience things he may not get to do very often, if at all. There are so many possibilities: amusement parks, zoos, museums,...
